true.
on an interesting sidenote a show talking on various things talked
about the state of echonomic affairs of the world and the western
world in general.
WHat I was told was that right now capatalism dirty and bad though it
is is at this moment the only viable and workable system to keep
things going for now.
THat other systems had not built up to it yet.
I was unfortunately traveling in the car to a friends place and
arrived there just as it was getting interesting.
We can get from this a couple of things.
1. the current system sucks but so what or.
2. the current system sucks but its all we have right now but
another system may take over in the near future.
So there is hope.
Saying that the system we have now wasn't always bad.
We needed it when things got started, but just like a hard drive its
getting to full of files.
its running out of ram and well it needs upgrading.
It doesn't help then when things break which they will tend to do
that well who knows.
I agree with nvda though.
Its growing quite fast and yess eventually the collective may have
power over the others.
But There is a question.
If we have power to crush the others do we become what we hate so much.
If I was a pirate that was going after copywrite holders of stuff
because of prices and such.
If I ever managed to get big would I end up doing what I was my swarn enemy.
Would I be the person doing the evil deed.
The scary thing is I think I would.
Greed is one of the human trates that has existed since the beginning
and will continue to do so.
Its vary possible that it will go round and round.
ants will become giants eventually that will step on ants that were
once like themselves.
This is getting to complex for a sunday.
However in the case with nvda its worth noting that there are people
in the industry that even if they don't put it out publically do
acknowledge at least privately some being my friends that nvda is
one of the moovers.
Its not like its a secret ofcause.
Ofcause the big thing will be when they become a big threat when the
big guys realise they are about to become ants and then attack on mass.
If we survive a suit or 2 maybe we will survive.
I hope blind games can get to the point where if we need to fight we
can do so and win.
I am not sure how many such fights we need to be rated among the big
guys but still.
Then again not all giants are bad, only sertain types in sertain arieas.
At 01:59 PM 11/17/2013, you wrote:
Hi Shaun,
Unfortunately, that is all too common when it comes to corporate
capitalism. It seems the larger and more well known the company in
question the people at the top of the corporate ladder are less and
less likely to care about their customers and only think about money,
money, money. It has always been that way, and it is the very reason
the United States government has had to step in and break up
monopolies, because once a corporation grew to a certain size they
began to abuse their wealth and power by charging high prices for
products and services, ignoring accessibility concerns, whatever.
However, there is always a counter balance that shift things back in
the other direction eventually.
To pud it this way, you said the corporations see us as ants. That may
be true, but in the wild get enough ants together and they can bring
down an elephant. Individually they might be weak, but as a single
unit the aunts are stronger than any single animal that happens to
step on their ant hill. The corporate markets work in a similar way.
Here in the USA and around the world Freedom Scientific has
consistently tried to monopolize the access technology market. They
have all kinds of deals going with state agencies, other corporations,
and have cared less and less about their customer base. However, some
of the customers are fighting back by creating a free/low cost screen
reader like NVDA, and everyone who can contribute to NVDA does so. As
a result in the space of five years or so NVDA has taken a huge chunk
of Freedom Scientific's screen reader market a lot of that was due to
their high prices, bad tech support, buggy software, and NVDA has made
a big difference for people like myself who couldn't afford the price
Freedom Scientific were charging for Jaws. Those customers who chose
to drop Jaws for NVDA may have been akin to ants initially, but get a
few thousand or more customers to leave Jaws for NVDA and Freedom
Scientific stands to lose millions of dollars because of their greedy
practices. As I said there are always checks and balances even for the
mightiest corporations.
Cheers!
On 11/15/13, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I was talking on the subject of copywrite on another list.
> And I have come to the sad conclusion that the bigger the companies
> get the smaller their customers get and the less they actually care.
> The sharks care about anyting that can pose a threat in the case of
> companies these are others bigger than them or the same sise or
> slightly smaller.
> Nz is a small country which doesn't help but disabled anyone, imagine
> how small we are.
> We do not have the power to fight fish such as those what companies
> are made of.
> And they know we are small so they don't care.
> Even the big companies loose in the ongoing progress wars.
> We are little more than ants and thats the only conclusion I can make
> without swearing on list.
> Its the only thing I can think of.
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